Memories of World War II in Norwegian Fiction and Life Writing
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2025 | Viewed by 1066
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue addresses representations of WW II memories in contemporary Norwegian literature, doing so with a comparative glance at tendencies occurring in the entire post-war era. Today, the primary witnesses are mostly gone, and new generations are facing a past they feel an urgent need to thematize. In fiction and life writing, new voices approach this critical phase in Norwegian history and its inherited master narrative from fresh angles and current interests. Informed by family experiences, national and international memory culture, as well as recent historiographic research, literary contributions offer new interpretations of war-time concerns and their post-war afterlife.
Fiction which addresses historical experience is conventionally complete with references to real events and persons, thus implying a certain realism or trustworthiness. An important question is how this tension between the historical credibility and its aesthetical framing is shaped, and how the critics and readers respond to it. Another question concerns the changing norms that a comparative study of attitudes and opinions between past and present reveals. During times of occupation, unconventional relationships occur, and belongings (national, ethnic, gender) become powerful, even existentially decisive. The Special Issue will address these questions and offer comprehensive analyses of selected Norwegian WWII literature.
Abstract deadline: 1 March 2025
Prof. Dr. Unni Langås
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Norwegian literature
- memory studies
- World War II
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